ISBN: 9781604979671

Widely considered the father of Puerto Rican literature, Alejandro Tapia y Rivera was also an abolitionist and a women's rights advocate. One of Tapia's most important works was his play, La Cuarterona, the tragic love story between the son of a white land-owning family and the daughter of a slave. This first-ever bilingual edition, with a critical introduction, provides a new window into Puerto Rico's rich cultural heritage.
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The Impact of Philosophy on National Culture

ISBN: 9781604979749

"In Krausism and the Spanish Avant-Garde, Christian Rubio argues convincingly that Krausism had a practical effect on everyday life and in literature...This book is a must read for those interested in the influence of Krausism and Kantian philosophy in Spanish culture during the early twentieth century." —Salvador Oropesa, Professor of Spanish, Clemson University
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Ethnogenesis in Context

ISBN: 9781604977042

"The author's analysis offers a new way to approach critical race theory.... Affords readers a
view of the diaspora that is broader and more inclusive than previous studies.While it is a necessary text for all institutional libraries, it would also make
a valuable addition to the personal library of any scholar in History, Latin
American or African Diaspora, or New World, Cultural, Ethnic and Racial
Studies. It could appropriately be a required text for students in any of these
fields." - New West Indian Guide
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Questions of Responsibility in Literary Studies

ISBN: 9781604976052

This unique book covers a wide gamut of literary periods and genres, including essays on Victorian literature and modernism, as well as several studies on narrative, but the central ethos emerges from considerations of issues of responsibility and irresponsibility as they find expression in literary study, and in ethics. It is an important book for all literature and literary theory collections.
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English Autobiographies, 1820–1848

ISBN: 9781604978452

"The close and insightful readings of these texts are a worthy contribution. ... Literature by the Working Class balances formal analysis of individual texts with larger questions about social and literary history, moving deftly from one to the other and intertwining them into a compelling argument. ... This treatment of working-class autobiography as intrinsically valuable as literature in its own right is welcome and long overdue." - Victorian Studies
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The Tradition and Poetics of Tihuashi

ISBN: 9781604977417

"The depth of insight that this book provides into the increasingly complex interrelations between the “Three Absolutes” (sanjue: poetry, painting, and calligraphy), especially between the first two, far surpasses any previous English-language study of the subject." - Journal of Asian Studies
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Political Essays on Women, Culture, and Nation

ISBN: 9781604976717

This volume of translations of Mahadevi Varma’s feminist political essays is the first of its kind. While there is ample work on Varma in Hindi, scholars of feminism (and students of Hindi who are in the nascent stages of language acquisition) have nowhere to turn for a comprehensive sampling of her work. This book now helps fill the void with contributions from some of the highly regarded experts in the world of Hindi today.
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The British Raj and the Memsahib

ISBN: 9781604978438

This book argues that although the memsahib’s female gaze has been spoken of, it has not been adequately emphasized and examined. Aiming at filling that gap by uncovering the world of British India as seen and shown by white women in colonial as well as postcolonial literatures, this compilation brings together scholarly essays on memsahibs’ literature and Raj writings, including men’s writings about memsahibs, spanning from before India’s independence to the post-Independence period.
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A Literary Biography

ISBN: 9781604975970

Praised by the Times Higher Education , this first literary biography of the well-known travel writer, Maria Graham, reconstructs her literary image employing significant passages from all her work. It illuminates a groundbreaking female intellectual who captured for her readers the ancient culture of India as deftly as she represented bandits in Italy and South America.
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Translated by Johanna Sandberg and Eric Sandberg

ISBN: 9781604979169

This new translation of The Markurells of Wadköping — the first in almost a century — illuminates The Markurells of Wadköping as a superb example of European literary modernism at its most accessible and dazzling.
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